It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone. – John F. Kennedy, to his Nobel Prize-winning guests

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. – Dwight D. Eisenhower